Thus, its growth rate is thought to be a useful guide to the future rate of inflation.
All future rates could be higher and the Treasury would have lost an opportunity to put out long-term paper at attractive rates.
Since the 1960's, futurists have consistently overestimated the future rate of technological progress and economic growth.
The expectations hypothesis argues that the long-term interest rate is a geometric average of expected future short-term rates.
The big driver for future rates of return is what percentage of your assets you put into this area.
However, they have to form expectations about future short rates.
There are several outbreak patterns, which can be useful in identifying the transmission method or source, and predicting the future rate of infection.
"And what drives the price of gold is investors' view of the future rate of inflation."
Whatever the verdict's impact on future rates, the cost of auto insurance has been declining recently.
Another imponderable is the future rate of oil and gas consumption, he said.